Carrie Soto Quotes

“Grief is like a deep, dark hole. It calls like a siren: Come to me, lose yourself here. And you fight it and you fight it and you fight it, but when you finally do succumb and jump down into it, you can’t quite believe how deep it is. It feels as if this is how you will live for the rest of your life, falling. Terrified and devastated, until you yourself die.
But that is the mirage.
That is grief’s dizzying spell.
The fall isn’t never-ending. It does have a ground floor.
Today, I cry for so long that I finally feel the floor under my feet. I find the bottom. And while I know the hole will be there forever, at least for now, I feel as if I can live inside it. I have learned its boundaries and its edges.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

“It was okay to win as long as I acted surprised when I did and attributed it to luck. I should never let on how much I wanted to win or, worse, that I believed I deserved to win. And I should never, under any circumstances, admit that I did not believe all of my opponents were just as worthy as I was. The bulk of the commentators... they wanted a woman whose eyes would tear up with gratitude, as if she owed them her victory, as if she owed them everything she had.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

“My dad and I. Always together. Our little team of two. Proud coach and star student.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

“I wonder when he is going to leave. I'd have left by now.
"I'm not going anywhere," he says, even though I can't tell if I said any of that out loud.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

“He has the grace to refrain from pointing out that I am throwing stones from my glass house.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

“What if I've fucked this all up?
I can't let that happen. I have to practice, and I have to plan. I have to work. My ambition has long felt oppressive. It is not a joy—it is a master that I must answer to, a smoke that descends into my life, making it hard to breathe. It is only my discipline, my willingness to push myself harder, that has been my way through.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

“It's not always so easy," Bowe says. "Standing next to you."
"I'm not going to apologize for it," I say.
"No," Bowe says, shaking his head. "Nor would I want you to.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, 100 Large Print Dot To Dot Book For Adults: Jumbo Dot-to-Dots For Adults, Seniors of Flowers, Animals